Obituary: Dora P. Spieker Gallaway, June 1, 2013

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
April 2015
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The Observer/Enterprise, Coke County, TX - June 7, 2013

Dora P. Spieker Gallaway, 94, of Bronte, Texas, went to be with her Heavenly 
Father on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Visitation was all day,Tuesday, June 4,  
2013, at Shaffer Funeral Home in San Angelo, located at 1939 Sherwood Way. 
The family was present to receive visitors from 5 pm to 7 pm. Funeral 
services were held at 10 am, Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at The First United 
Methodist Church in Bronte, located at 324 South Washington St. with 
David Bailey officiating. Interment followed at Fairview Cemetery in Bronte. 

Pallbearers were Mark Duncan, John Page Hruska, Jaylon Seales, John Seales,  
Clarence Spieker, Eugene Spieker, and Calvin Wanoreck. Alternates were David 
Hale and Daniel Steele. Services were under the direction of Shaffer Funeral
Home/Sherwood Way. 

Dora was born August 1, 1918, in Mills County, Texas, to Fred C. Spieker and 
Alma Marie Marwitz Spieker. In 1940, she married Robert Louis Gallaway and 
spent most of their lives working farmland and stock farming in Hymen and 
Wall, Texas. In 1959, they moved to Coke County on"the farm" in Bronte. After 
the passing of her husband in 1982, Dora left the farm and moved into town 
where she was very active in the Bronte community and The First United 
Methodist Church of Bronte. She was a member of the Quilters Club, RSVP and 
the Thursday afternoon Sr. Citizens Dominoes Club. Her interests also included 
a love for music that came through at her "jam sessions" as she played along 
on the piano, accordion and occasionally the harmonica, baking her pecan pies 
and cinnamon rolls, and saving all her birthday and Christmas cards because 
a brief noteand a card meant the world to her.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, six siblings, grand-daughter 
Cheri Kahlig, and great-granddaughter Amy Delamater. Dora is survived by her
daughter, Norma Kahligand and husband James of San Angelo; son, Robert Gallaway 
and wife Denise of Bronte; grandchildren, Carol Ann Hale and husband David of 
San Angelo and Kelly Seales and husband John of Bronte; great-grandchildren, 
James Lee Delamater, Stephen Kyle Delamater, Jaylon Seales, Kyalyn Seales, and
Jamison Seales; numerous nieces and nephews. 

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to 
the building fund of The First United Methodist Church in Bronte, Texas.

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